She was born April 5, 1892, at rural Newhall and with her husband Louis F. Koep had farmed in the Keystone-Belle Plaine area. Following the death of her husband in 1951 she moved to Belle Plaine in 1956.

She is survived by one son Stanley Koep, rural Belle Plaine; two daughters Mildred Schild, rural Belle Plaine, and Dorothy Miller, Cedar Rapids; four grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.